since a consensus-based model for idm's "best of '96" list is likely to
squeeze out a good 80 percent of what i considered to be the best releases
of the year (not a whole lot of 'phlex or warp here, i'm afraid), i thought
i'd post my lists to the, uh, list...
idm.top.10.albums (no order)
1. Spooky.Found Sound (Generic)
2. TPower.Waveform (Anti-Static)
3. Haruomi Hosono, Atom Heart & Tetsu Inoue.HAT (Rather Interesting)
4. Two Lone Swordsmen.The Fifth Mission (Emissions)
5. Various.Blechsdottir (Warp)
6. Spacer.Atlas Earth (Pussyfoot)
7. Bisk.Time (Sub Rosa)
8. Elfish Echo.Elfish Echo Presents Sato Yumiko (KM20)
9. +N.Built (Rather Interesting)
10. Stranger.Rolling Thunder (Octopus)
idm.top.10.singles (no order)
1. Gerhard Potuznik.Gerhard Deluxe (Cheap)
2. Boards Of Canada.Boards Of Canada (Skam)
3. Mung.Places EP (Blue Planet)
4. Pulsinger & Tunakan.Showroom Recording Series #2 (Cheap)
5. Jega.Jega EP (Skam)
6. David Morley.Stardancer EP (Apollo)
7. Various.Empathy Box Remixes (Rephlex)
8. Robots & Humanoids.Robots & Humanoids (Alphaphone)
9. Future Sound Of London.My Kingdom EP (Virgin/Astralwerks)
10. Impulse.One-Seven EP (Dodge)
thanks,
sc